Question

I am Looking for the Ancestors of Winnifred Pilsowth Dexter of Brisbane Qld., Australia

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Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980

Name:	Winifred Pilsworth Herschell
Gender:	Female
Electoral Date:	1980
Electoral Place:	Morningside, Griffith, Queensland, Australia
Household Members:	Name Age Winifred Pilsworth Herschell

Source Information:

Ancestry.com. Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Original Data: Australian Electoral Commission. [Electoral roll].

SHE MARRIED  Derrick James Herschell

HER PARENTS WERE 

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Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950

Name:	Samuel Dexter
Spouse Name:	Ethel Maud Cagner
Marriage Date:	04 Apr 1904
Marriage Place:	Queensland
Registration Place:	Queensland
Registration Year:	1904
Registration Number:	B003159
Page number:	6541
Household Members:	Name Age Ethel Maud Capner Samuel Dexter

Source Information:

Ancestry.com. Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

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Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985

Name:	Samuel Dexter
Death Date:	02 Feb 1942
Death Place:	Queensland
Father's Name:	Samuel
Mother's Name:	Sarah Pilsworth
Registration Year:	1942
Registration Place:	Queensland
Registration Number:	001112
Page number:	591

Source Information:

Ancestry.com. Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Original Data: Compiled from publicly available sources.

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Apologies for the multiple posts, but I kept hitting the character limit -- or so the angry red letters told me.

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WINIFRED'S HUSBAND

Australia, World War II Military Service Records, 1939-1945

Name:	Derrick James Herschell
Birth Date:	30 Jun 1914
Birth Place:	Toowoomba
Year range:	1939 - 1948
Enlistment Place:	Brisbane
Service Number:	B4039
Spouse:	Winifred
Series Description:	A6769: RAN, Navy Officers
Household Members:	Name Age Derrick James Herschell Winifred

Source Citation: National Archives of Australia; Canberra, Australia; Service Cards for Navy Officers, 1911-1970; Series: A6769

Answer 1

Do you have a profile for her, any other info like dates, name at birth, was she married?

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Winnifred was married to Derrick James Herschell at St Stephen's Presbyterian Church Anne St., Brisbane in 1939.Her Father was Samuel Dexter and mother Ethel Maud Capner. Son  Derrick Kenneth Herschell.

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Found in the Queensland historical records

Winifred Pilsworth Herschell
Event date: 22/01/1982
Event type: Death registration
Date of birth: 1915
Registration details: 1982/776
Mother: Ethel Maude Capner
Father/parent: Samuel Dexter

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There isn't a birth record on search in Queensland.
Do you happen to know if they came from elsewhere in Australia, or overseas?

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Dear Melanie, thanks so much. This was my Dad and Mum. Great parents. Who could have wished fir better.

D. Ken Herschell

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My parents were married in Ann St Presbyterian, but I think it was St Andrew's.

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Having said I couldn't find Winifred's birth in Queensland - I have to eat my words, because I just now did.

Found in the Queensland historical records

Winifred Pilsworth Dexter
Event date: 17/10/1914
Event type: Birth registration
Registration details: 1914/C/4512
Mother: Ethel Maud Capner
Father/parent: Samuel Dexter

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There are also 4 siblings listed.

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Eric Stanley Dexter
Event date: 06/10/1904
Event type: Birth registration
Registration details: 1904/B/9305

Mother: Ethel Maud Capner
Father/parent: Samuel Dexter

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Leonard Samuel Dexter
Event date: 26/10/1908
Event type: Birth registration
Registration details: 1908/C/3340

Mother: Ethel Maud Capner
Father/parent: Samuel Dexter

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Phyllis Gertrude Dexter
Event date: 12/12/1917
Event type: Birth registration
Registration details: 1918/C/918

Mother: Ethel Maud Capner
Father/parent: Samuel Dexter
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Joan Elaine Dexter
Event date: 11/11/1919
Event type: Birth registration
Registration details: 1919/C/12625

Mother: Ethel Maud Capner
Father/parent: Samuel Dexter
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Those links, by the way, are the sources.

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This is your grandfather -

https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/details/9aa68b41524ec7132cae45e69e96edcee8f28d60ad4a83095018b8c2a4a07ff8
Samuel Dexter
Event date: 02/02/1942
Event type: Death registration
Registration details: 1942/C/1112
Mother: Sarah Pilsworth
Father/parent: Samuel

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134692256/samuel-dexter
Samuel had a younger sister, Winifred - so that's probably where your Mum got her name.

This is Samuel's father, your great-grandfather
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/details/da1aa9975cfa13c403094c1200b2a81f71e57e3facee894eda22f892f6fa6603
Samuel Dexter
Event date: 28/07/1910
Event type: Death registration
Registration details: 1910/B/12809
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Mother: -
Father/parent: Joseph Dexter

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This is Samuel's mother, your great-grandmother
https://www.familyhistory.bdm.qld.gov.au/details/3418f234f1de7d507b339e227e3063cd8ebea851d8dd7bef75c5e2ad742b8e45
Sarah Dexter
Event date: 14/09/1924
Event type: Death registration
Registration details: 1924/B/43843
Mother: -
Father/parent: - Pilsworth

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If you have an account with family search, you will find your paternal line here, with Samuel the elder to his father, Joseph - https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LYH2-TSP

Ethel Maud Capner's line --

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LR5V-TZ2

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She was born in Brisbane. QLD.,

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These are Mum's brothers and sister's. Thanks.

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Merci bien, Ken